A walk to remember (from Bronx to Downtown)

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere,
they're in each other all along.

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Translator: Coleman Barks

Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Translator: Shahram Shiva
When I am with you, we stay up all night,
When you're not here, I can't get to sleep.
Praise God for these two insomnia!
And the difference between them.

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Translator: Coleman Barks
Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door.
She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side.
Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair
My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Translator: Shahram Shiva